Category: technology

Ready for a new network for talent discovery and collaboration? Wait no longer: Daisie has arrived. From Tech Crunch: Actress Maisie Williams, best known for her role as Arya Stark on Game of Thrones, is the latest celeb to venture into tech…

Thinking about throwing out that old typewriter? Think again. Long a topic of careful and considered industrial design, collectors are getting wind of the fact that the seemingly obsolete typewriter is a thing of collectible beauty. From Christie’s blog: The museum community…

Wish you could read more quickly? There’s an app for that. From Quill & Quire: Boston-based tech company Spritz has developed a technology that replaces digital pages with quick-streaming text, thereby eliminating time-consuming “inefficient eye movements.” According to the company’s website, some…

Despite increasingly strident warnings over the last decade that the physical book is taking a dive, signs that the opposite is true continue to rise. The latest of these voices comes from PolicyMic with an article by Shan Wang called “How Book…

It hardly seems like it should be news. And yet. On December 6th, iconic author Stephen King (Carrie, The Shining) uttered his first tweet: “No longer a virgin,” King tweeted. “Be gentle!” “On Twitter at last,” he tweeted later that day, “and…

PatentlyApple.com reports that the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple Computers on September 26th that “reveals a new iBook autographing system and more specifically to techniques and systems for embedding autographs in electronic books.” From PatentlyApple: Book…

It is every author’s worst nightmare and the embodiment of the industry’s worst fears. On May 7th, a hacker calling himself Guccifer broke into Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell’s e-mail account and carried away a large portion of her unpublished…

We live in a time when only the largest assertions get any attention. Go hard or go home. It may be silly, but it’s true. And you can make those big assertions and they can be empty because, a year from now?…

Though we’ve seen a lot of new technology aimed at booklovers over the last few years, perhaps nothing is likely to touch us in our reading life as acutely as the Book Drum World Map, an addictive site/technology that may well change…